PixlBit

Is MC all urban terrain, as in nothing but buildings, steel and concrete, or do you get to drive through some of the more picturesque locales in LA?

I just want to drive through scenery.  I love those moments in driving games where you have gotten so good that you leave the competition in the dust and you're just cruising and enjoying the ride.

Driver games are more like GTA. They are good, but I just want a more traditional (i.e. linear) open road (not world) experience.

Looked it up. Seems like it fits the bill, but I don't own a 360.  Damn exclusives.

I did play Paradise. I should clarify that by open road I don't mean open world where you're criss-crossing a persistent area. I'm thinking of something linear with a start point and an end, then you move to the next state or country. Think Road Rash.

The CRew doesn't sound too bad. According to Wikipedia is was praised for its world. Don't care about any story.

Looks a little bland, but I may get an .iso to try it out. Thanks for the suggestion.

It had the multiple dialogue options, which is about as far as you can go in video games. The only other thing you can really do is have lots of different solutions to problems/quests, e.g. New Vegas.

Actually ETS2 doesn't look like a bad option. Not a big fan of trucks, but it looks like you can do some scenic driving in there.

Yes, logical consistency and linguistic accuracy and integrity matter if you want to play on my team. Other then that people can call Gran Turismo a muffin baking simulator as long as they admit they're just pulling shit out of their own ass